This dissertation is structured around two questions. First, it explores the conditions and characteristics of the extended field of contemporary studies on the body. Second, and more specifically, it questions whether the theorists of the body, while re-thinking the relationship between body and soul, have taken into account the psychoanalytical discoveries on such matter. In order to answer these questions, it became necessary to present the psychoanalytical conception of the body, which I have described in the second chapter of this research project. Taking the premises and fundamental concepts of Freudian metapsychology as point of departure, I have elaborated an itinerary on J. Lacan's main categories and theories to elucidate the uses and statutes of the body in lacanian psychoanalysis. The cross-wise hypothesis in this thesis, which relies on critical and comparative analyses of the texts of the main contemporary thinkers of the body, is that the concept of jouissance (enjoyment) is the shibbolet of the psychoanalytical approach, that is, the concept that sharply demarcates it from other theoretical proposals. The second cross-wise hypothesis is that the proliferation of theories and discourses concerning the body is based on the inflation of three images, repeatedly used to counteract or respond to the Cartesian approach, which relies on the image of the body as a clock. Such images are: body-abject, body-text and body-border, each of which represents an attempt to rethink the relationship between body and soul. The three chapters in the second part of this dissertation are devoted to analyse the theories that rely on those three images. The third chapter is about the uses and statutes of body-abject, and it analyses different proposals from the field of art theory –those belonging J. Kristeva H. Foster, S. Žižek, among others– with the discussion around the concepts of sublimation and representation as background. The fourth chapter, focused on the uses and statutes of body-text, analyses, in the first place, the role of autobiographical practices in feminist thought; then, the body-text according to M. Foucault; and finally, it offers a critical reading of J. Butler's theory on performativity. The fifth chapter is about the body-border and it opens a dialogue between psychoanalysis and the ontology "from" the body, by Jean-Luc Nancy. The whole analytical approach of the second part of the thesis is based on the dialogue with the psychoanalytical categories unfold in the second chapter and the methodological premises presented in the first one.